Island Home - A Landscape Memoir

b>'I grew up on the world's largest island.'/b>From his childhood, Tim Winton's relationship with the landscape around him - Australia's swamps and bush, rockpools, seacaves and scrub - has been as vital as any other connection. Whether camping in hidden inlets, walking in the high rocky desert fringe, or diving at Ningaloo Reef, Winton has felt the place seep into him - its rhythms, its dangers, its strange sustenance.Island Home is the story of how that relationship with the landscape came to be. Charged with love for the huge, besieging force of Australia's wild spaces, this book is a passionate call for their conservation, a memoir that urges us all to feel the ground beneath our feet. Tim Winton's Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir, is also available.

About the author

Tim Winton is widely considered one of the greatest living Australian writers. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). In 2023 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia for "distinguished service to literature as an author and novelist, to conservation, and to environmental advocacy. He lives in Western Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Winton
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.2017
• EAN: 9781509816927
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-1692-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Australische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), NATURE / General, Western Australia, Autobiography: literary, The countryside, country life: general interest, Autobiography: writers, Literary Figures